Stored red blood cell (sRBC) morphology is currently scored manually by technicians in a slow labor intensive process prone to error. This project proposes a way to simplify, automate, and expedite the morphology scoring process by using a novel...

Planned obsolescence refers to the situation where a company has too high an incentive to create a new product that renders the old durable goods non-compatible or obsolete. Does this incentive persist when the firm can choose what quality level...

Background: Fungal infections such as Candida in pediatric patients are associated with worse clinical outcomes and increased costs, yet it is not definitively known if particular Candida species are associated with worse clinical outcomes than...

In order to provide an improved in vitro model with which to investigate human diseases, such as cancer that may be promoted by toxicant exposure, we have characterized a newly developed cell line derived from the renal proximal tubule epithelial...

Degradation processes change the chemical composition of oil and can be affected by the mixing of oil into the environment. Here, a ramped pyrolysis (RP) isotope technique is implemented to investigate thermochemical and isotopic changes in...

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza (Matamoros, 1964) critiques gender in her novels. In an era of prolific publications dealing with gender, Rivera Garza's work stands out for its fresh critique...

In the reopening of fluid occluded airways, the pressure gradient due to the propagation of an air bubble causes extensive epithelial cell damage. The mechanism of cell necrosis and biotransport may be further understood by characterizing the flow...

This study considers the contemporary use of decimal based floating point representations. Because decimal representations do not require conversion of values between decimal and binary based systems, they are preferred over traditional binary...